Space Mountain, Marvel, and Fantasyland!

I said I'd talk about the "Cast Member" activities that Housing sets up at some point here. It's not quite a "Housing" activity, but more a perk of the job, but I got to tour Space Mountain the other day. For those who don't know, Space Mountain has been ungoing renovations for the past year or so. It is scheduled to re-open again in November. One of the architect's in the office set up a tour for the interns before they started running cars through the ride again. It was really interesting. As seen above, we got to go on top of the building. It's quite the view of Magic Kingdom! The reason for this story... although I'm learning A LOT on the architectural end of things here at Disney, the people in the office are really good about getting me out and showing me things in the parks that you don't get to see as a guest.

If you've been following the news at all, you've probably seen Disney! We recently acquired Marvel comics. Disney announced that they will be expanding Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom (anticipated to be done in 2013). If you haven't read about it... go google "disney fantasyland". There are some good articles and renderings of what the additions are going to look like. Another perk of the internship... I've actually known about the expansion for a few weeks. I even got to take a peek at the architectural drawings for the announced Little Mermaid ride. Nothing set in stone, but it's a possibility I will start working on some projects for the new Fantasyland before my internship is up here!

Well, that's about all I have for now. I thought I'd take some time to fill you in on what's happening at Disney from a companywide perspective. If you're reading this and have a question about something related to the internship, feel free to post a comment. I would be more than happy to write on some of the questions that people have.